PROS
- Produces little pollution
- Much less harmful than coal and other fuels - Reliable
- Need little fuel
- Breeder reactors produce more uranium than they use
-Less risk for shortages - Safe
- No American deaths due to Nuclear Energy
- Very well built and protected
- Core able to withstand plane crashes
-Cost
-Nuclear power is estimated to cost $59.30/MWH.
CONS
- Dangerous
-Meltdowns = malfunction with cooling water. The rod heats up, melting through it's containment vessel. The rod melts through to the ground and nuclear containment is released.
-Waste Disposal
- Insufficient space to dump waste
- Waste take 1000s of years to neutralize
- Buried underground
- Radiation
- 200 rems causes sickness
- The average person takes 200 millirems a year
- If humans depended only on nuclear energy, we would produce 2/10 of a millirem a year.
Nuclear Energy
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PROS
- Produces little pollution
- Much less harmful than coal and other fuels
- Reliable
- Need little fuel
- Breeder reactors produce more uranium than they use
-Less risk for shortages
- Safe
- No American deaths due to Nuclear Energy
- Very well built and protected
- Core able to withstand plane crashes
-Cost
-Nuclear power is estimated to cost $59.30/MWH.
CONS
- Dangerous
-Meltdowns = malfunction with cooling water. The rod heats up, melting through it's containment vessel. The rod melts through to the ground and nuclear containment is released.
-Waste Disposal
- Insufficient space to dump waste
- Waste take 1000s of years to neutralize
- Buried underground
- Radiation
- 200 rems causes sickness
- The average person takes 200 millirems a year
- If humans depended only on nuclear energy, we would produce 2/10 of a millirem a year.